IN TENTH GRADE I TOOK A TRIP TO NYC

By Kim Bosch

- Students were yelling, “STAR ALERT!” at every single limo we passed coming into the city. It got old fast.

- I had sex with my boyfriend in his hotel room while the guy he was rooming with was off getting “free” ice.

- I saw Kirsty Alley in an elevator. She was pulling a child by the arm and yelling, “NO you can’t!”

- I saw a young man of around twenty wearing only a garbage bag for clothing (in November) screaming for someone to give him money.

- I ate 30 steamed hotdogs in 5 days. I now cannot eat hotdogs.

- I did not have enough money to go to the Empire State Building having spent all my money on hotdogs.

- One of the students kept asking when we were going to see Det. Sipowicz.

- I got in trouble for spiting onto the head of a woman with a small dog in her purse from my hotel room window.

- The French teacher we were traveling with got upset when a street vendor called him “Mr. Frenchy”.

- I bought a really cool nightlight of the statue of liberty (which soon had large black nipples drawn on it).